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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john randolph leblanc”
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  • The Spectral Palestinian

    Presence before Politics

    by John Randolph LeBlanc ...
    Long before October 7, 2023, Palestinians haunted the West and its political categories. In this work of political theory, John Randolph LeBlanc reads works by Raja Shehadeh, Sari Nusseibeh, and Mahmoud Darwish to track the manifold ways existing political language and norms (e.g., rule of law, human rights, international law, the nation-state) failed to capture and address the experience of a ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Welcoming the Other

    Student, Stranger, and Divine

    by James F. Lea, Dr. Andrea Conque, David D. Corey, N. Susan Laehn, Thomas R. Laehn, John Randolph LeBlanc, W. King Mott, Peter A. Petrakis0, William P. Schulz1, William Paul Simmons2, Drew Kennedy Thompson3 ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    The modern turn in political philosophy established the ontological primacy of the ego, reducing the community to a mere assemblage of individuals, and led to the repudiation of natural duties in favor of inherent individual rights. The modern project culminated in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose emphasis on radical individuation left human beings both liberated and exiled. Individuals were ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

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  • Qur'an and Woman

    Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

    by Amina Wadud ...
    Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of the shadows. Muslim progressives have long argued that it is not the religion but patriarchal ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Power, Politics, and Culture

    Interviews with Edward W. Said

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture.“A fascinating, oblique entry into the mind of one whose own writings . . . are a brilliant questioning chronicle of ... Read more

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  • Sexual Ethics and Islam

    Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence

    by Kecia Ali ...
    Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives’ sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument. In this updated and expanded edition of her ground-breaking work, feminist Muslim scholar Dr Kecia Ali asks how one can determine what makes sex lawful and ethical in the sight of God.Drawing ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Covering Islam

    How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **In this classic work, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world. • With a new foreword by Laleh Khalili"No one stuyding the relations between the West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work." --The New York Times Book Review**From the Iranian hostage crisis through ... Read more

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  • Politics of Piety

    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    by Saba Mahmood ...
    Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Believing Women in Islam

    Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an

    by Asma Barlas ...
    Does Islam call for the oppression of women? The subjugation of women in many Muslim countries is often used as evidence of this, while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression and inequality. In this paradigm-shifting book, Asma Barlas argues that, far from supporting male privilege, the Qur'an actually affirms the complete equality of the sexes. Offering a ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside the Gender Jihad

    Women's Reform in Islam

    by Amina Wadud ...
    Series series Islam in the Twenty-First Century
    A world-renowned professor of Islamic studies, Amina Wadud has long been at the forefront of what she calls the 'gender jihad,' the struggle for justice for women within the global Islamic community. In 2005, she made international headlines when she helped to promote new traditions by leading the Muslim Friday prayer in New York City, provoking a firestorm of media controversy and kindling ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Feminist Edges of the Qur'an

    by Aysha A. Hidayatullah ...
    Aysha Hidayatullah presents the first comprehensive analysis of contemporary feminist interpretations of the Qur'an. Synthesizing prominent feminist readings of the Qur'an in the United States since the late twentieth century, she provides an essential introduction to this nascent field of Qur'anic scholarship and engages in a deep investigation-as well as a radical critique-of its methods and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Progressive Muslims

    On Justice, Gender and Pluralism

    by Omid Safi ...
    Series series Islam in the Twenty-First Century
    Developed in response to the events of September 11, 2001, these 14 articles from prominent Muslim thinkers offer a provocative reassessment of Islam's relationship with the modern world. Confronting issues such as racism, justice, sexuality and gender, this book reveals the real challenges faced by Muslims of both sexes in contemporary Western society.A probing, frank, and intellectually ... Read more

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  • Egypt in the Future Tense

    Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011

    by Samuli Schielke ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth . . . Recommended." — ChoiceAgainst the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus